Jenny Lindsay claimed it was the first time a gender critical author has been asked to speak at a Scottish book festival Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

Birlinn Ltd officially launched the App “Scotlandby-the-Book” on 15 September 2023. It’s a very informative platform with books on history, geology, mapping, cooking, fiction, travel, poetry, politics ...

Scottish Book Trust is campaigning for a new law requiring every school in Scotland to have a library, warning that more than a decade of cuts has left provision “drastically reduced” and vulnerable ...

What do you think of when you think of Scotland (my homeland, FYI!)? Castles? Whisky, kilts, and shortbread? Trainspotting? These are the images that have been exported around the globe, and ones I've ...

We have a special theme on Under the Radar’s website this week, which we’re simply calling Scotland Week. All throughout the week we will be posting interviews, reviews, lists, and blog posts relating ...

Forget sunshine and golden sands, some of us choose to spend our time off visiting historic sites. If you’re one of those, you may want to pick up the new book 111 Dark Places in Scotland That You ...

An upcoming BBC Scotland documentary, Scotland's Amazing Comic Book Heroes by AKA Comics shop owner John McShane, makes the claim regarding the publication of The Glasgow Looking Glass, published in ...

The population of Scotland is estimated to be 5.5 million people – roughly 8% of the entire UK – and the latest data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM) shows that Scots punch ...

She was a confused old woman who had no understanding of the danger she was in or the terrible fate her neighbours had in store for her. Almost 300 years ago Janet Horne was the last woman executed ...

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